Gary Palmer actually said...

"I think is extremely important--safeguarding federally funded research from foreign threats?"

"We have got all kinds of problems with this. I was very involved in Alabama looking into fraud in respect to that."

"I think we could help on the implementation side, obviously, with legislation but also with oversight."

"We need to take an attitude, a position that this is so critical to our national security that we permit some of these mines immediately."